Fall from grace: Once an acclaimed journalist, Hugues-Denver Akassy is charged with rape.manhattan district attorney

A disgraced journalist-turned-skirt-chasing accused rapist was busted for sleeping outside an Upper West Side woman’s rooftop bathroom window just two days before the alleged rape in Riverside Park, The Post has learned.

The 33-year-old commercial producer was getting ready for bed Sunday night when she saw Hugues-Denver Akassy, 42, try to hide his prying eyes below the ledge of a barred window on the sixth floor of her West 75th Street building.

“She saw the top of his head, like he had kind of ducked,” said her husband, Dex, 36. “She looked again and he was obviously looking at her.”

The frightened woman texted “call the police” to him.

The woman said, “I heard him outside. I stood at the window for a few minutes and then I saw his head pop up. I don’t know what he was doing at that moment, but at 11:30 at night, a man on the roof of your building can’t be up to anything good. I panicked.”

Cops showed and nabbed Akassy — whose bed was a folded piece of cardboard, with a rolled up towel nearby and socks drying on a metal rail. Akassy’s hideaway was accessible by the building’s fire escape.

“I am homeless. I sleep on the roof of the building,” he told cops at the time, according to the criminal complaint.

French-born Akassy was charged with criminal trespass but then let loose.

Two days later, he allegedly raped a Russian tourist he had met for a picnic in Riverside Park.

He is being held on $100,000 bail.

It seems a far fall for Akassy, who once told cops he made $45,000 a year as host of French-English media outfit Orbite Television.

He is also charged with aggravated harassment for chasing a 33-year-old woman down the street and sending her venomous emails.

And, he faces criminal trespass charges for visiting New York Sports Clubs, from which he had been banned.